1976_03 The Daily Collegian March 1976

              2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    Thursday, March 18, 1976
Editorial.
Ritchie Amendment: threat
to academic freedom
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668 E. SHIELDS
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Last Wednesday (March U) the CSUF Associated
Student Senate passed a motion very similar to the
controversial Ritchie Amendment, which has drawn
fire from organised labor and California Governor
Edmund G. Brown Jr.
The senate's motion, which passed, by a six to
two vote, stated: * A.S. Senate adopt the Legal and
Legislative Committee recommendation toendorse
the concept of using merit as a factor ln determining layoffs but not endorse the Ritchie Amendment until the mechanics and criteria for determining merit are developed.* »
It Is alarming that students would take such a
political stand so dangerous to academic freedom.
Administration   yes,  students  no.  But they did.
The senate's motion, which hasrio effect except
to " represent" student sentl ments, does not endorse
the Ritchie Amendment but the two are so strikingly similar that the senate Is ln effect endorsing
the Ritchie Amendment.
The Ritchie Amendment, passed in January by
the California State University and Colleges Board
of Trustees, stipulates that merit be used over
tenure as the primary consideration for faculty
tyoffs, should cutbacks In personnel become nec-
FAVOR1TISM
We feel the Ritchie Amendment Is a potentially
harmful piece of legislation because lt strikes at
the heart of academic freedom. The potential for
favoritism and political layoffs Is an ominous presence In the Ritchie Amendment.
Warren Kessler, statewide president of the
United Professors of California, says the Ritchie
Amendment "will open the door to a witch hunt.* We
agree totally.
We also agree wtth Kessler that the Ritchie
Amendment could be 'the most serious threat to
education since the McCarthy era."
The trustees' amendment does not eliminate the
word .enure, but lt does eliminate the concept.
This is most dangerous because tenure Is the very
foundation of academic freedom.
■Merit* Is an alluring concept to the fair minded,
t we must still face the very real possibility
it it will lead to an eroslai
dom. We fear It would serve as a great convenience.
to pobr administrators to "do away* with political
adversaries.
Mrs. C. Stewart Ritchie, the author of the
amendment, said her proposal Is not a threat to
academic freedom and tenure.
•I think that If the professors are doing a good
Job,  keeping up with their disciplines, then they
have nothing to fear,* Ritchie says. "If they art'
Just lying around on their laurels, then they
have something to worry about.*
Kessler disagrees with Ritchie. He says
competent persons are not protected now. The
ministration already has the means to remove
faculty members who cannot perform, he says,
but. the stumbling block is a legal hearing, ln
the administration must bear the burden of proof.
The administration does not need any new authority, he notes.
■They (administrators) are Interested ln firing
competent people who are causing them problems,'
OBLIVION
'. It Is Interesting to note that the statewide Council
of Presidents has supported the Ritchie Amend-
ment. It does not have the endorsement of Got,
-Brown, however. Brown Is reported to have sail
that he would 'deliver the Ritchie Amendment lab'
oblivion.*
We urge students to study the amendment lad
not be fooled by the captivating term •merit," The
senate can still change its stand on the issue If
enough students voice their disapproval.
Even more significance would be attached
airing of students' disapproval before the Board
of Trustees. This has already been done son '
successfully when, after a deluge of complaints
about the amendment to the board, Ritchie said
she would try to delay implementation <"
amendment until next year so that some
procedures can be ironed out.
The amendment can still be defeated by the board
if there Is enough opposition to it, and students caa
-  and  should  —  play a  very viable part In the
Bruce Scheldt, editor
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RESUMES
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George Dantzig to speak Sat.
Androcles to headline
Children's Theatre bill
Thursday, Merchie, 1976     THE DAILY COLLEGIAN-3
George uantzlg of the Stanford
Research Institute will be a featured speaker for the third Town
Meeting   sponsored   by   Fresno
CSUF University Theatre Presents
Stephen Sondheim's Smash Hit
LAST 3 DAYS!
TONIGHT - FRI. - SAT.
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General \     3.00
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8:15 p.m.       /
MARCH 18,19, 20
Little Theatre (John W. Wright Theatre)
Tomorrow  thts  Saturday 1
Residence Dining Hall.
■Compact CI ty*i
ten by Dantzig, Is the basis oft
concept called •Superbia*
Illustrated by Dr. Oliver Yn of |
the Electric Power Research Institute of Palo Alto.
In "Compact City* Dantzig 4t- J
scribes a scene for building nr~
cities of up to two million ii
havitants. Such a city would hiv»|
an area of nine square miles til
a height of 500 feet and a density f
less than that of San Fr:
William B. Uphold of theC.
Philosophy Department will p
sent his views about Hun
Values ln the Community o
Future ln  t
and  to other urban design c<
cepts  that will be presented br
David Greenberg of Envlronrnr
tal Communications  of Veniej
Calif.
For
at 486-5144 ■
I at 266-7229. Tl
Town Meeting Is open to thepd
lie with a charge of $8 fc
eral admission and $4 for et
dents. Lunch will be served W
the university staff.   .
y Suzanne Lummis
StafT Reporter
The CSUF Children's Drama
Center will present the plays
•Androcles and the Lion" and
COMMMMOT (One-and Only Musical, Magical, Mystical, Marvelous, Original, Traveling)
-Story Theatre*  on Friday and
The plays' director) Dan Pa-
sano, said that although performing theater for children Is
diff-rent than performing for
adults, children's theater must
work for both audiences.
•Children are uninhibited,* be
said. "They participate more.
This works for you and -against
you. Very seldom do you see
adults applaud the beginning of
a play, or squirm when there's
a really suspensoful moment.
But because they're more willing
io participate, you, aeadlrector,
have a real responsibility to
them to make the show par off."
He dismissed the common be-
Dairy Club
lauds students
ipeclal recognition was given
13 students and three San
quln valley residents by the
,'F Dairy Club at the club's
d     annual    awards    banquet
elected for honorary mem-
ship In the Dairy Club were
and Mrs. Walter Harpaln,
wrs of Harpaln's Dairy Farm
Fresno, longtime supporters
he dairy program at CSUF.
ast fall the Harpains donated
mistered Holstein cow, Har-
I's Astro Llllle, to the unl-
sity's breeding program.
Iso honored at the Dairy Club
il was Larry Layne of Sanger,
one] vice-president of Lloyds
k of California and a 1965
luate of CSUF, who was
ed the club's Alumnus of the
iree CSUF students werese-
!d to receive the Club's Outline Senior Awards. They
• Joanne Moreda of Peta-
, Jim Santos of Rlverdale
Stephanie SWenson of Chlno.
national Dairy Shrine Club
J '" recognize student ac-
Kathy Duarte of C . _„ _^
ne of five dairy cattle judg-
eam members who were
nled    with    sliver   buckle
i Kent Christensen of Mer-
John Kessler of Gait, Bnrt
11 of Petaluma an.' Paul
• of Clovis.
Iver buckle awards also were
ented to CSUF dairy products
■ >>: team members Stephanie
«n and Tim Murphy of
9, and Daniel Shore of Le-
rvestore  Products  Awards
*>ng  the  high team at the
r'd Dairy Expo cattle Judging
•est m Columbus, Ohio, were
resented to team members Mike
of Clovis, Mike Galllchlo
Banos, Eddie Martinazzl
and Joanne Moreda of
students offered
ar'y registration
students who wish to receive
monty registration may do so
working one eight to 10 hour
lt,L !" *■ r»«1»tr«'- Interested
Cr« ushou,d '""fr t0T a-
P,r «»the Registrar's office lo
Joyal Administration Bulld-
r' » 121   before April 1.
offer Is made on a first
"■"st served basts.
lief that  children's theater Is
only for children.
•Children's theater is theater
first and should therefore en-
*sge everyone, adults as well
as children,* he said.
Both CSUF productions will
play at Southern California Children's Theatre Festival ln Los
Angeles April 23-25 and the
Northern California Children's
Theatre Festival <n San Francisco, May 7-9. The CSUF Child
Drama Center is the only university or professional children's
theater organization to be invited .to perform at both the
southern and northern festivals.
"The OOMMMMOT •Story Theater combines narration, dialogue and action to relate various old folktales, including 'The
Golden Goose* and "The Diamond
Necklace."
•Androcles and the Lion* tells
of a very unusual friendship between the hard working slave
Androcles,  and the •ferocious*
"Androcles and the Lion' is
probably one of the two or three
best scripts In children's theater,* pasano said. "It/Woean't
Play down to children. It has good
physical action and fine lines.
•It would surprise me greatly
Tradition keeps women
from science, botanist says
by Don Newman
Start Reporter
Renowned botanist Mildred E.
•MAthlas told a women's forum
that failure of women to enter
the sciences at a professional
level was removing an unknown
Potential from the field.
The distinguished scientist was
the sixth speaker in the Women's
Forum series sponsored by the
CSUF Women's Studies Program
" and the American Association of
University Women.
Addressing a sizeable audience
last night ln the College Union
lounge, Mathlas said that traditional roles and historic cycles
were keeping female high school
graduates from continuing their
education past the secondary
level. She said that women graduates were facing a high •attrition   	
i sciences. According to Mathlas, there is a 23 per cent surplus of personnel (men and women) in the.physical sciences and
a 47 per cent surplus in the
natural sciences.
"It past history Is repeated '
said Mathlas, "it bodes 111 for
i She said that in the past there
have been periods of Increased
awareness by society about wom-
1 en's professional roles followed
by Increased participation of
women In the professional fields.
But this Increased awareness Is
then followed by economic strain,
she said, and women tend todrop
back because men, the traditional
breadwinners, are given prefer,
ential treatment..
Mathlas said that women contemplating careers ln the sciences face a 'triple threat" to
their future careers. Women are
discouraged from taking the necessary high-level math courses
In high school, they face psychological difficulties resulting from
perceived discrimination, plus
the actual practice of discrimination, she said.
She said she thinks that the
discrimination stems from the
employer's  view that women's
roands and sacrifices of a pro^
fessional career.
Society has given women a
built-in "motivation not to succeed," she said,becauseof social
rejection a-"*- ■  -
she will
enjoy It," he said. "And 111 employ every trick I have as a director to make it work, so that
I don't have to stop people at the
door and ask, 'How old are
you?'"
Both productions will be per-
t formed at the Lab School, Room
101, at 4 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m.
and 2 p.m.Saturday."Androcles"
will Play again on March 19, 20,
26 and 27, and "Story Theatre"
on April 2, a, 9 and 10. Starting
on March 23, the two shows will
tour throughout the San Joaquin
Valley every Tuesday and Thursday to some 16 elementary
schools. ~-
She cited a recent survey which
Indlcated4hat women represented
52 per cent of the total number
of high school graduates. Out of
that total, only 34 per cent received baccalaureate degrees and
10 per cent were awarded PhDs,
she said. The number of women
actually working In their field of
specialization might be lower yet.
she noted. '
She doesn't hold an encouraging picture for the 'future of
women in the sciences. Although
the number of women working ln
the sciences was Increasing, it
Is not Increasing fast enough.she
said.
"The present picture is
gloomy,* she said, noting that
there Is presenUy a surplus of
persons qualified for positions ln
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